Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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